A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . >it jebe& gapitcr^ fur^en <5umnwrtfit ^ mi*ritrcjt lm^ incrten ^u*^ €frd anli bc^ iniltcn ^^iicljs Per •JDlaccaMer. t-^-?- @erinaiUOiDn: JV//« Pajj-i; of Saur Bible, 1743. The Two Christoplicr Sowers. 373 which the sheets for the whole edition would beprinted, when the types were distributed before com-mencing the next form. Finding his supply of typesinsufificient even for this, he contrived moulds andcommenced casting his own types. He also madepaper, compounded his own printers ink, bound his. Anvil on -which Matrices we
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . >it jebe& gapitcr^ fur^en <5umnwrtfit ^ mi*ritrcjt lm^ incrten ^u*^ €frd anli bc^ iniltcn ^^iicljs Per •JDlaccaMer. t-^-?- @erinaiUOiDn: JV//« Pajj-i; of Saur Bible, 1743. The Two Christoplicr Sowers. 373 which the sheets for the whole edition would beprinted, when the types were distributed before com-mencing the next form. Finding his supply of typesinsufificient even for this, he contrived moulds andcommenced casting his own types. He also madepaper, compounded his own printers ink, bound his. Anvil on -which Matrices were Forged for the Type of theSaiir Bible of 1-43. books, besides various other employments in whichhis services could be made useful. Indeed, like asensible immigrant in a new country, he refused noemployment in which his ready ingenuity and abilitieswere needed. He enlarged and increased his businessof publishing until his publications in the German and 374 History of the Brctlirai. English languages numbered over two hundred differ-ent works, mainly of a religious character.^) This Bible was issued forty years before RobertAitken published the first English Bible in type that Sower made were cast in a matrixforged in his own machine shop by his employee,Flickenstein. The anvil upon which these mouldswere made was long held in regard by FrederickFlickenstein, son of the former, and at the lattersdeath it passed into the possession of the late JabezGates, in whose family it now is and through whosecourtesy a photograph of it is here reproduced. T
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